Through Kufra to Darfur

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ID4645971
AuthorsA M Hassanein Bey (corresponding author)
Year1924
Volume64
Issue4
Pages273
Publication date1924-10-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeographical Journal (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0016-7398 • E-ISSN: 1475-4959
PublisherJSTOR (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.2307/1781810
OpenAlexW1489229953
LanguageEN
Citations received6

Y journey through the Libyan Desert from Sollum on the Mediter? ranean to El Obeid, the capital of Kordufan, in the Sudan, was made in the first half of 1923. The inspiration for it dated from 1916, when I went with Colonel the Hon. M. G. Talbot, a distinguished offlcer of the Egyptian Army, who had retired and come back into service at the call to arms, on a mission to Sayed Idris El Senussi, at Zuetina, a tiny port near Jedabya in Cyrenaica. One of the purposes of the mission was to efifect an agreement with Sayed Idris, as head of the Senussi and the most influential chief in Cyrenaica, which should prevent in the future Badawi raids across the western frontier of Egypt. At Zuetina I renewed acquaintance with Sayed Idris whom I had already met, through his friendship for my father, when he was returning from his pilgrimage to Mecca in 1915. I told Sayed Idris of my ambition and desire to make the journey to Kufra, which had been visited only once by a stranger from across the desert's border, the intrepid German explorer Rohlfs in 1879. Sayed Idris was sympathetic with my desires, and asked me to let him know when I was ready to make the expedition. He promised to give me all the help he could in my under taking. Early in 1917, in continuation of the same mission to the Senussi, I met their head again at Akrama, near Tobruk, and told him that I was still determined to make the journey. I proposed to go as soon as the end of the war should set me free

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